“Personal Space”
RLP wrote this article … it’s a good read if you have a moment.
… This is the reality of intimacy. We have a personal space, and we choose carefully whom we let inside. And when people come into this space, it can be scary. Sometimes the shock of it brings the voice of a child out of you, revealing secrets and making you blush with shame. …
I read the entire article and found it very intersting. I remember feeling very ashamed of some (actually most) of the things I had done to defile God and myself when I first starting hanging out with christians after a few years of a crazy lifestyle in undergrad. I was really reluctant to open up to other Christians and it wasn’t really till I found other christians who had made the same mistakes that I could even get over my own pride to discuss it. It is too bad it is like this, in a christian community our personal space should not be a hinderance to us sharing our struggles and reconciling sins, relationships or whatever else is getting in the way of our relationship with God.